# So who, besides Lewis Carroll, was Jack the Ripper? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [July 23, 2014, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-besides-lewis-carroll-was-jack-the-ripper/693822 "2014-07-23T05:18:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-besides-lewis-carroll-was-jack-the-ripper/693822/41 "2014-09-08T14:44:08Z")
The only certainty in the Jack the Ripper case is that someone will always be along to suggest another suspect. > [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](#): > > We frequently refer to McDonald’s as “that Scottish restaurant.”… I do too! ---
**Author:** ![qazwart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/5fc32e/32.png) [@qazwart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qazwart)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2014, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-besides-lewis-carroll-was-jack-the-ripper/693822/42 "2014-09-08T20:52:25Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > The shawl’s provenance is, shall we say, suspect. The mtDNA is not definitive; it just limits the pool. I this case to roughly 400,000 people. You may say, “but how many of those were in Whitechapel in 1888?” Probably quite a lot. The Jewish population of Whitechapel in 1888 was between 45,000 and 50,000, many fairly closely related. Aaron Kosminski might not even be the Kosminski who was suspected. > > More about Kosminski: [Casebook: Jack the Ripper - An Alternate Kosminski Suspect and Police Witness](http://www.casebook.org/dissertations/kosfinal.html) > The thread about the latest findings: [Kosminski and Victim DNA Match on Shawl - Casebook: Jack the Ripper Forums](http://forum.casebook.org/showthread.php?t=8296) Just posted on [Snopes](http://www.snopes.com/info/news/ripper.asp) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-besides-lewis-carroll-was-jack-the-ripper/693822/43 "2014-09-09T02:34:51Z")
Why is it taking so long to get approved to post over at [casebook.org](http://casebook.org)? I’ve been waiting for more than an hour! Don’t they know, _there is somebody wrong on the internet!_ Ahem. One of their resident experts keeps describing the shawl/table runner, which he claims to have studied closely, as being 2 meters x 8 meters, when it is clearly 2 feet by a very light 8 feet: [http://wpmedia.news.nationalpost.com/2014/09/ripper\_-\_shawl.jpg?w=620&h=464](http://wpmedia.news.nationalpost.com/2014/09/ripper_-_shawl.jpg?w=620&h=464) ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2014, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-besides-lewis-carroll-was-jack-the-ripper/693822/44 "2014-09-14T02:48:36Z")
> [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](#): > > We frequently refer to McDonald’s as “that Scottish restaurant.”… > [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > …I do too! Gosh, I know their food is bad, but never thought it was cursed. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2014, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-besides-lewis-carroll-was-jack-the-ripper/693822/45 "2014-09-14T12:35:23Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Gosh, I know their food is bad, but never thought it was cursed. “I’ll have the Bard’s Sandwich, an order of fires, and a Coke ™.” ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-besides-lewis-carroll-was-jack-the-ripper/693822/46 "2014-09-15T15:05:51Z")
Aaah! Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends! ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2014, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-besides-lewis-carroll-was-jack-the-ripper/693822/47 "2014-09-16T12:44:15Z")
Hasn’t it been conclusively proven that Tycho Brahe was Jack the Ripper? ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2014, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-besides-lewis-carroll-was-jack-the-ripper/693822/48 "2014-09-16T13:11:29Z")
I believe so: Tycho (foolishly) kept a careful log of his movements, which allowed his assistant Kepler to deduce the details later. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2014, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-besides-lewis-carroll-was-jack-the-ripper/693822/49 "2014-09-16T13:12:03Z")
> [@Xema](#): > > I believe so: Tycho (foolishly) kept a careful log of his movements, which allowed his assistant Kepler to deduce the details later. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2014, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-besides-lewis-carroll-was-jack-the-ripper/693822/50 "2014-09-19T18:18:29Z")
I have now, by dint of years of research, established quite conclusively that the man known as Jack the Ripper was the true author of Shakespeare’s plays (as well as the works of Bacon and the Earl of Oxford). I have discovered a truly marvellous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-who-besides-lewis-carroll-was-jack-the-ripper/693822.md?page=2)